mikeabraham

Well done.

They flew too close to the sun.

Yes.

My apologies for not realizing that point you were making. I agree that it might be difficult to find a company that wants you to build their product using your OS project. I meant that there are probably companies out there that would evaluate your abilities on the strength of your OS project and then hire you to build whatever it was they needed.

If you want to make your side project your day job, that's a different story, but maybe it would be possible to build a startup on it. Easy to say, I know. The internet is full of well-meaning but effectively useless advice like mine. :)

Google famously passed on the guy who invented Homebrew, so at least you're in good company. As others have said, the interview process selects for (wait for it) ... people who are good at the interview process. It's kind of like the SAT and college. If you want to get in, you get good at the SAT, regardless of its relevance.

Instead, maybe seek out the companies that go bonkers for your OS project and can't wait to turn you loose inside their company. They're out there and I suspect it would be more enjoyable to work for them. Good luck and don't despair!

That's like saying, "whatever you're building, you should use a saw to do it." The DB is just a tool. Use the right tool for the job.

I miss Delphi. I miss Clipper Summer '87. I miss BeOS. I miss simpler times. Those were good times....

How is this different from Audm?

That made me laugh out loud. Well done.

Only because no one has mentioned it yet, "When We Were Kings". About The Rumble in the Jungle. We forget that, at the time, people were worried that Foreman, the hardest hitter who ever lived, might _kill_ Ali in the ring.

The savvy of Ali's "rope a dope" strategy, combined with the way he got in Foreman's head, whispering in his ear in the clinches, was genius. IMO, you can't watch this film and not agree -- GOAT.

Amen to every word except this sentence. "Better choices should be made by web developers to not ship this bullshit in the first place."

No developer I know, web or otherwise, wants to do any of this, and all of them are religious in their use of ad blockers and autoplay stoppers.

This is the kind of stuff developers are forced to do with guns to their heads by the PMs and marketing teams that actually determine the user experience.

This is indeed the goal, marketing terminology notwithstanding. We're trying to create a system to tie a file to a user (regardless of device), rather than to any device itself. And to do it in such a way that the user doesn't need to know (unless they want to) on which physical device (or devices or services) the file resides.